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Memcon 2004, Santa Clara, California November 9, 2004 – GDA Technologies, Inc., a fast growing supplier of Intellectual Property (IP) and Electronic Design Services (EDS), today announced that it has joined the LSI Logic RapidChip® Partner Program to deliver quality IP solutions. The RapidChip Partner Program offers customers ready-to-use, fully verified and best-in-class products and services to develop advanced, next-generation technologies. “GDA is elated to be associated with the LSI Logic RapidChip Partner Program. The ability of the RapidChip platform to deliver a low latency, high system performance, low risk path for building multi-gigabit serial interface designs along with the faster time-to-market at affordable NRE cost shall greatly benefit our IP customers.” said Prakash Bare, vice president of IP Business at GDA Technologies. "We strive to deliver quality IP solutions and take pride in LSI Logic’s selection of our IP cores for their RapidChip Platform ASICs." “GDA is a proven supplier of high quality, compliant and interoperable high speed interconnect IP such as PCI Express, HyperTransport, RapidIO, Advanced Switching, Gigabit Ethernet, SPI4 and we are pleased to offer GDA IP to our RapidChip customers,” said Ronnie Vasishta, vice president of Technology Marketing at LSI Logic. “RapidChip customers can easily integrate their design functionality with GDA IP and with LSI Logic’s industry-compliant high-speed SerDes and embedded standard processors, pre-built on a RapidChip slice.” About RapidChip The RapidChip® semiconductor platform combines the high-density, high-performance benefits of cell-based ASICs with the fast time-to-market and customization benefits of FPGAs, and the proven IP benefits of ASSPs. Targeting the communications, consumer, storage and other markets, RapidChip Platform ASICs use LSI Logic's high-performance field-tested CoreWare® IP, customizable logic, embedded memory, and innovative design concepts to significantly reduce design and manufacturing risk and costs. RapidChip Platform ASICs also provide a fast and seamless migration path to full standard-cell ASIC driving unit costs even lower. Unique to RapidChip Platform ASICs is the customer-friendly interface that dramatically simplifies the underlying complexity of the design tools and flows associated with SoC design. Rule sets automatically manage architectural design, verification, and physical design. About GDA Technologies, Inc. GDA Technologies, Inc., is a leading design services company specializing in embedded, networking and consumer electronic designs. GDA focuses on designing Systems, Boards, SOCs, ASICs, FPGAs and IPs from concept to product. GDA has successfully developed products in areas of Networking, Digital Video, Internet Appliances and Hand Held Solutions. GDA is headquartered in San Jose, CA and has satellite design centers in Sacramento, Boston, Chennai and Bangalore. The GDA web site is www.gdatech.com. San Jose, California – November 5, 2004 -- GDA Technologies, Inc., a fast growing supplier of Electronic Design Services (EDS), today announced the release of its Dual G4 based Single Board Computer (SBC), an industry standard 6U cPCI form-factor board for value-added resellers, system integrators and OEMs. The Dual G4 cPCI Single Board Computer is designed around two tightly coupled G4 Power PC Processors (MPC 7457 at 1.2GHz) from Freescale Semiconductor and a Discovery III system controller from Marvell Technology. The system controller supports DDR SDRAM at 333 MHz, Flash Memory, two PCI interfaces, Copper and Fiber Gigabit Ethernet Interfaces and a serial interface. In addition, the board provides a PMC interface, an I2C interface for monitoring the board and CPU temperatures and a JTAG interface for testability. This fully hot swappable, Dual G4 board can act as a system controller or an intelligent peripheral board, with the help of the PCI to PCI bridge provided on the platform, in a variety of plug and play applications in telecommunication, enterprise networking and Internet infrastructure systems. This cost-effective solution will allow system developers and OEMs to quickly launch products such as high end fire walls, deep packet classification, security/intrusion detection, Ipv4 and Ipv6 management, Billing systems, VPN servers and Instrumentation. “GDA has enabled several standard form factor processor engines and line interface cards. It owns reference designs built around today’s leading communication and network processors that include Motorola’s Power PC, PowerQUICC II and III integrated processors, Intel’s IXP2400 and 2800 Network Process and NetSilicon’s Net+50 processor. GDA portfolio solves our customer needs, which include the need for higher compute power and distributed computing and the need for standard form factors and high speed interconnect,” said Gopa Periyadan, Vice President, System and Software Design Services Business Unit. Along with the hardware, GDA provides Flash based firmware and board support packages for Embedded Linux. Support for other Operating Systems will be available in the first quarter of 2005. “GDA is making strong investments in applications and product designs using high end processor technologies and industry standard form factors to allow our customers to shorten their time-to-market. Our current embedded design portfolio spans across different standards like Advanced TCA, AMC, PMC, cPCI form factors using industry leading CPUs and NPUs. GDA will continue to invest in such industry standard form factor designs,” said Manik Bahri, Marketing Manager, System and Software Design Business Unit. Pricing and Availability GDA’s Dual G4 based SBC is now available. Pricing details are available through GDA Sales at sales@gdatech.com. About GDA Technologies, Inc. GDA Technologies, Inc., is a leading design services company specializing in embedded, networking and consumer electronic designs. GDA focuses on designing Systems, Boards, SOCs, ASICs, FPGAs and IPs from concept to product. GDA has successfully developed products in areas of Networking, Digital Video, Internet Appliances and Hand Held Solutions. GDA is headquartered in San Jose, CA and has satellite design centers in Sacramento, Boston, Chennai and Bangalore. The GDA web site is www.gdatech.com. San Jose, California – November 1, 2004 - GDA Technologies, Inc., a fast growing Electronic Design Services (EDS) company and IBM Business Partner, today announced that it has validated its SIGe design services as Ready for IBM Technology for IBM’s 0.50um and 0.18um silicon germanium BiCMOS process technologies. The Ready for IBM Technology program is intended help IBM’s foundry customers speed time to market, reduce development risk, lower development costs and improve return on investment by identifying design centers that have tested and validated their methodologies for compatibility with IBM technologies. “GDA is very much pleased to become a part of IBM’s RFIT foundry program. With this certification, GDA with its IP and services capabilities are well positioned to offer full turnkey services based on advanced IBM technologies “said Ravi Thummarukudy VP and GM IC solutions, GDA Technologies Inc. “We welcome GDA Technologies, Inc. into the Ready for IBM Technology program," said Ned Cahoon, manager of IBM's foundry business development. “GDA’s design services and development capabilities can provide IBM foundry customers with additional choices and flexibility to help meet their requirements.” About GDA Technologies, Inc. GDA Technologies, Inc., is a leading design services company specializing in embedded, networking and consumer electronic designs. GDA focuses on designing Systems, Boards, SOCs, ASICs, FPGAs and IPs from concept to product. GDA has successfully developed products in areas of Networking, Digital Video, Internet Appliances and Hand Held Solutions. GDA is headquartered in San Jose, CA and has satellite design centers in Sacramento, Boston, Chennai and Bangalore. The GDA web site is www.gdatech.com. SAN JOSE –October 20, 2004 – GDA Technologies, Inc., a fast growing supplier of Electronic Design Services (EDS), today announced that it is developing a Reference Design Kit around the Intel® IXP23XX product line of network processors (NPU). The new network processors combine microengines, network processing elements (NPEs) and enhanced Intel XScale® technology to support data plane and control plane processing in a single chip. The GDA Technologies’ Reference Design Kit will be a PCI adapter card and will consist of an Intel® IXP23XX network processor subsystem with 128MB of SDRAM on microengine port, 32MB SDRAM on control plane port, flash memory and QDR II SRAM. To provide network connectivity, two Gigabit ports and an OC-12 media interface will be designed into the board hardware. In addition, for manageability, bring-up support and software development, one RS232 and one 10/100 Ethernet port will also be available on the design. The GDA reference design kit is an ideal platform for embedded developers, Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) and system integrators who want a flexible development environment around the Intel® IXP2325 and Intel® IXP2350 network processors for access and edge application. The high-performance NPU architecture provides processing headroom to support applications from DSLAMs to wireless infrastructure to wireless LAN aggregation switches to VPN Firewalls. GDA’s prior experience and expertise with Intel® IXP2400 and Intel® IXP2800 network processor- based hardware design and micro-code development means GDA’s customers now have a wider choice of design platforms. The consistent Intel® IXP2XXX software and hardware architecture helps to protect development investment and speed deployment of a broad product portfolio. “GDA is committed to continuing to invest in Intel® IXP2XXX network processor-based designs. The IXP23XX network processor-based kit will be the third reference design kit from GDA around Intel network processor product lines, “said Gopa Periyadan, Vice President of System and Software Design Services at GDA Technologies. “Our goal is to help Intel’s customers reduce cost, risk and time-to-market while they design products and systems around these processors.” “Network equipment vendors are always looking for ways to minimize development time while adding new services,” said Frank Schapfel, network processor product line marketing manager, Intel Infrastructure Processor Division. “The GDA PCI adapter board based on our new network processors will help our customers evaluate and begin the design of IXP23XX network processor-based systems that can support line rates up to 2 Gbps.” The new Reference Design Kit will support Embedded Linux operating system and GDA will also offer its embedded software services for porting other popular embedded operating systems. In addition, GDA will create a valuable debug and diagnostics software tool around the IXP23XX network processors. This tool will provide a basic boot monitor along with extensive diagnostic routines and loop-back tests and will allow customers to shorten debug and test cycle time. Intel network processor customers can also utilize the engineering design services offered by GDA for systems, boards, PCB layouts, SOC development, ASICs, FPGAs and IPs to customize this new GDA reference design for their specific access and edge applications. The GDA design package connects customers to the best design resources for their specific engineering, software development and validation requirements. GDA Technologies is an Affiliate Member with the Intel® Communications Alliance, a community of communications and embedded developers and solution providers. For more information, please visit www.intel.com/go/ica. About GDA Technologies, Inc. GDA Technologies, Inc., is a leading design services company specializing in embedded, networking and consumer electronic designs. GDA focuses on designing Systems, Boards, SOCs, ASICs, FPGAs and IPs from concept to product. GDA has successfully developed products in areas of Networking, Digital Video, Internet Appliances and Hand Held Solutions. GDA is headquartered in San Jose, CA and has satellite design centers in Sacramento, Boston, Chennai and Bangalore. The GDA web site is www.gdatech.com. Intel and Intel XScale are is a registered trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries. NetEffect selects GDA Technologies Inc as the Design services partner for next generation Multi Gigabit Ethernet solution. San Jose, California – October 11, 2004 - GDA Technologies, Inc., a fast growing IP & Electronic Design Services (EDS) company today announced that it was selected by NetEffect to provide hardware design services for NetEffect’s next generation of high-performance, multi-gigabit Ethernet solutions. GDA will provide a variety of services starting with design verification. NetEffect’s solution is redefining high-performance data center server-to-server and server-to-storage communications. By providing a full implementation of iWARP enabled Ethernet, NetEffect is delivering uncompromising networking, storage and clustering performance on a single Ethernet fabric. “Based on their extensive IC design and implementation experience we felt GDA Technologies would successfully deliver the services we need on time. In addition to their background in ASIC design, GDA Technologies’ experience in Structured ASIC and full COT design were considerations in choosing them as a partner.” Said Terry Hulett, Vice President of Engineering. “We are extremely pleased to be selected as a design partner for NetEffect. Our proven methodologies and processes will help accelerate NetEffect’s product development“ said Ravi Thummarukudy VP and GM IC solutions , GDA Technologies inc . About GDA Technologies, Inc. GDA Technologies Inc. is a leading Electronic Design Services (EDS) and Silicon Intellectual Property (SIP) solution provider for the embedded, networking, and consumer electronics markets. GDA specializes in designing ASICs, FPGAs, IPs, boards, SoCs, software and complete systems from concept to product. GDA has successfully developed products in the areas of desktop, server, and embedded computing, digital audio and video applications, Internet appliances, and voice and data networking applications. In the IP front, GDA has been the leading solution provider for fast interconnect technologies such as HyperTransport, PCIExpress, Ethernet and Advanced Switching with many licenses sold in compute, networking and communication markets. GDA is headquartered in San Jose, California, and has satellite design centers in Boston, Sacramento, Singapore, Chennai and Bangalore, India. The GDA web site is www.gdatech.com. About NetEffect NetEffect, headquartered in Austin, Texas, is a network solutions company developing products to enable the next generation of high-performance, multi-gigabit Ethernet. NetEffect’s products allow Ethernet to easily scale to meet data center demands, using next-generation iWARP RDMA Ethernet that is fully compatible with the Ethernet infrastructure found in today’s data centers. NetEffect’s investors are TL Ventures, Austin Ventures, JatoTech Ventures, Infinity Capital, Granite Ventures, TI Ventures and Duchossois Technology Partners. Visit www.neteffect.com for more information. Agreement Expected to Bring in-demand HomePlug-Certified Chips to Market. NORTH PLAINFIELD, NJ, August 24, 2004 – CDKnet.com, Inc. (OTCBB:CDKN) today announced that its Arkados Inc. subsidiary has entered into a collaboration agreement with GDA Technologies Inc., a leading hardware design firm. The two companies have agreed to work together to quickly bring HomePlug-certified silicon to market. Each company recognizes that a great synergy exists between them: Arkados’ team has accumulated years of experience in Powerline communications and System-on-chip design while GDA has excelled in building complex semiconductors for the leaders of the semiconductor industry. “We are very pleased to be working with GDA,” stated Oleg Logvinov, president and chief executive officer of Arkados. “Their engineering team has demonstrated remarkable results with previous projects, and they have a proven track record in the marketplace.” “Powerline communication holds an excellent promise, and it is exciting to be working in this space along with Arkados," said Ravi Thummarukudy, vice president and general manager of IC Design Solutions at GDA. "We were impressed with the Arkados design and felt that our team, having successfully served several leading electronic product companies, can make Arkados’design another success story.” Based on a worldwide specification from the HomePlug Powerline Alliance, powerline technology uses the power lines already in a home as a high-speed network, allowing digital devices, such as computers and consumer electronics, to connect to each other, and to the Internet. Mr. Logvinov also serves as president of the HomePlug Alliance. “GDA’s team will become an extension of our team and will bring additional resources and vast expertise into this project,” Logvinov said. “This collaboration will bring highly integrated, lower-cost powerline solutions to market for in-home data networks and for entertainment applications such as digital audio and video.” About Arkados Arkados Inc., based in North Plainfield, N.J., is a wholly owned subsidiary of CDKNet.com Inc. A home networking and broadband powerline communications company, Arkados’ powerline solutions enable high-speed digital transmission of voice, video, and data over the existing powerline infrastructure. Arkados’ highly integrated semiconductors are targeted for the home networking and broadband communications markets with a focus on application support. Using advanced design methodologies, Arkados is developing semiconductors that incorporate both standards-based and proprietary technologies. Arkados' designs for next-generation homenetworking products incorporate diverse functionality with a focus on the cost-effectiveness of final solutions, and are intended to get products to market quickly. Arkados' solutions support a rapid development environment through robust support of industry-standard Operating Systems and APIs, as well as comprehensive design documentation, software, training, and certification assistance. Arkados is a member of HomePlug Powerline Alliance (www.homeplug.org). For more information on Arkados, visit www.arkados.com. About GDA Technologies, Inc. GDA Technologies Inc. is a leading Electronic Design Services (EDS) and Silicon Intellectual Property (SIP) solution provider for the embedded, networking, and consumer electronics markets. GDA specializes in designing ASICs, FPGAs, IPs, boards, SoCs, software and complete systems from concept to product. GDA has successfully developed products in the areas of desktop, server, and embedded computing, digital audio and video applications, Internet appliances, and voice and data networking applications. In the IP front, GDA has been the leading solution provider for fast interconnect technologies such as HyperTransport, PCIExpress, Ethernet and Advanced Switching with many licenses sold in compute, networking and communication markets. GDA is headquartered in San Jose, California, and has satellite design centers in Boston, Sacramento, Singapore, Chennai and Bangalore, India. The GDA web site is www.gdatech.com. ANDOVER, MA., June 14, 2004 – Avery Design Systems Inc., an innovator in functional verification, and GDA Technologies, GDA Technologies, a leader in Silicon Intellectual Property (SIP) and Electronic Design Services (EDA), today announced the expansion of their partnership to address design and verification IP solutions for PCI Express and Advanced Switching Interconnect. Avery and GDA currently offer the GPEX IP family, a suite of comprehensive design and verification IP solutions for PCI Express Endpoint, Root Complex, Bridge, and Switch designs. The Advanced Switching verification solution is offered by Avery and GDA both independently and as part of GPEX. Avery verification IP solutions are offered as the PCI-Xactor product family. “GDA Technologies and Avery are committed to providing the industry’s leading Advanced Switching design and verification solution to our customers”, says Chilai Huang, president of Avery Design. “Leveraging the solid foundation we have developed together in PCI Express, we will bring the same high quality solutions and design services support that our customers have come to expect when designing for emerging standards.” “Our GPEX IP family continues to be the leading PCI-Express solution in the industry. Avery’s verification IP is an important part of our GPEX offering and we are excited to expand and strengthen our relationship for Advanced Switching,” said Prakash Bare, vice president of IP business at GDA. “Our combined solutions allow designers to have access to complete set of design and verification IPs for PCI-Express and Advanced Switching. Moreover, the offerings enable designers to minimizing their design risks, reduce time to market and development cost in implementing high-performance Advanced Switching based products.” About PCI Express and Advanced Switching Interconnect IP Core GDA Advanced Switching IP core (GPEX-AS) is a highly flexible and configurable port controller design targeted for both PCI-Express and Advanced Switching technology implementations in compute and communication applications. GPEX-AS is part of GDA’s PCI-Express (GPEX) family of IP solutions which includes End Point (GPEX-EP) and Root Complex (GPEX-RC) designs. GPEX-AS supports both PCI-Express and AS protocols. The controller architecture is tailored to address the needs of different market segments with highly configurable system PIs and support for PI-8, SLS, SQ, SDT and software PIs. About PCI-Xactor for Advanced Switching The PCI-Xactor for Advanced Switching Verification Solution is a complete verification solution consisting of Bus Function Model (BFM), SuperMonitor, and test suites and verification frameworks for functional verification of Advanced Switching components. The PCI-Xactor allows design and verification engineers to quickly and extensively test the entire functionality of their Advanced Switching compliant devices. Verification frameworks form complete testbench environments for endpoint, switch, and host/IO switch designs. Verification engineers just need to replace an Avery BFM with their design and begin running comprehensive verification tests. The PCI-Xactor environment leverages advanced verification techniques of Avery’s TestWizard product supporting complex data structures, transaction database, random generation, temporal property checking, and coverage analysis. Key Features * Complete set of fully functional BFMs and testbenches for every Advanced Switching component: Endpoints/Fabric Manager, N-Port Switch, Host/IO Switch Avery Design Systems Inc. is a supplier of functional verification products and service that enables dramatic productivity improvements of the ASIC-based systems and SOC verification process. Additional information about Avery Design Systems is available at www.avery-design.com. About GDA Technologies, Inc. GDA Technologies Inc. is a leading Electronic Design Services (EDS) and Silicon Intellectual Property (SIP) solution provider for the embedded, networking, and consumer electronics markets. GDA specializes in designing ASICs, FPGAs, IPs, boards, SoCs, software and complete systems from concept to product. GDA has successfully developed products in the areas of desktop, server, and embedded computing, digital audio and video applications, Internet appliances, and voice and data networking applications. In the IP front, GDA has been the leading solution provider for fast interconnect technologies such as HyperTransport, PCI-Express, Ethernet and Advanced Switching with many licenses sold in compute, networking and communication markets. GDA is headquartered in San Jose, California, and has satellite design centers in Boston, Sacramento, Singapore, Chennai and Bangalore, India. The GDA web site is www.gdatech.com. ANDOVER, MA., June 14, 2004 – Avery Design Systems Inc., an innovator in functional verification, and GDA Technologies, a leader in Silicon Intellectual Property (SIP) and Electronic Design Services (EDA), today announced MaxCov, a comprehensive PCI Express interface verification testsuite that validates compliance to the PCI Express Checklists and ensures device interoperability. MaxCov extends the PCI-Xactor PCI Express verification products from Avery Design Systems. MaxCov is offered by Avery and GDA both independently and as part of GPEX, a suite of comprehensive design and verification IP solutions for PCI Express Endpoint, Root Complex, Bridge, and Switch designs. “GDA Technologies is the market leader of high-quality PCI Express design and verification IP. We are pleased that our partnership and over 10 person years investment in compliance testing can now be made available to the broader market in the PCI-Xactor PCI Express solution.”, says Chilai Huang, president of Avery Design Systems. “GDA’s commitment to quality dictates that we apply rigorous verification standards”, said Prakash Bare, vice president of IP business at GDA. “MaxCov is the direct result of our combined efforts in implementing comprehensive verification of the GPEX core. Using Avery’s verification framework we can verify our GPEX core in different component configurations using highly reusable and customizable compliance tests offered in Verilog source code format.” Key Features * Tests developed in Verilog HDL About PCI-Xactor for PCI Express The PCI-Xactor for PCI Express Verification Solution is a complete verification solution consisting of Bus Function Model (BFM), SuperMonitor, and test suites and verification frameworks for functional verification of PCI Express components. The PCI-Xactor allows design and verification engineers to quickly and extensively test the entire functionality of their PCI Express compliant devices. Verification frameworks form complete testbench environments for endpoint, switch, and bridge designs. Verification engineers just need to replace an Avery BFM with their design and begin running comprehensive verification tests. The PCI-Xactor environment leverages advanced verification techniques of Avery’s TestWizard product supporting complex data structures, transaction database, random generation, temporal property checking, and coverage analysis. Key Features * Complete set of fully functional BFMs and testbenches for every PCI Express component: Endpoints, Root Complex, Switch, and PCI/PCI-X to PCI Express Bridge About PCI Express technology PCI Express technology is the new industry-standard I/O targeted to provide local connectivity across desktop, mobile, enterprise and communications platforms. PCI Express resides at the center of enterprise interconnect innovations anticipated across storage, networking, and clustering and workstations. Next-generation servers, utilizing PCI Express technology, will offer powerful and cost-effective computing platforms, scalable hardware building blocks, market-tested best-of-breed solutions, and enterprise-class reliability, availability, serviceability and manageability. About Avery Design Systems Avery Design Systems Inc. is a supplier of functional verification products and service that enables dramatic productivity improvements of the ASIC-based systems and SOC verification process. Additional information about Avery Design Systems is available at www.avery-design.com. About GDA Technologies, Inc. GDA Technologies Inc. is a leading Electronic Design Services (EDS) and Silicon Intellectual Property (SIP) solution provider for the embedded, networking, and consumer electronics markets. GDA specializes in designing ASICs, FPGAs, IPs, boards, SoCs, software and complete systems from concept to product. GDA has successfully developed products in the areas of desktop, server, and embedded computing, digital audio and video applications, Internet appliances, and voice and data networking applications. In the IP front, GDA has been the leading solution provider for fast interconnect technologies such as HyperTransport, PCI-Express, Ethernet and Advanced Switching with many licenses sold in compute, networking and communication markets. GDA is headquartered in San Jose, California, and has satellite design centers in Boston, Sacramento, Singapore, Chennai and Bangalore, India. The GDA web site is www.gdatech.com. San Jose, California, May 11, 2004 – GDA Technologies, Inc., a fast growing supplier of Intellectual Property (IP) and Electronic Design Services (EDS), today announced that it has licensed its 10 Gigabit (XGEMAC) and 1 Gigabit (GEMAC) Ethernet MAC IP cores to inSilica Inc., a leading supplier of customer specific SoC solutions. XGEMAC is industry’s first UNH_IOL compliance validated 10 Gigabit Ethernet MAC IP core targeting LAN, MAN, WAN switches and routers, traffic aggregators, multiplexers and test equipments applications. inSilica will be incorporating the XGEMAC IP core into its next generation communication products. “GDA is highly regarded as an innovator and developer of high-speed interconnect Intellectual Property cores,” said Anant Agrawal, President & CEO of inSilica. “Combined with the rich-featured and highly flexible system validated XGEMAC IP core, the XGEMAC gives us full confidence that our products will be in compliance with the IEEE802.3ae specifications and allows us get to the market quickly.” “GDA is reshaping the IP landscape by offering system validated solutions, and service enable IP model to accelerate our customers’ products to market while reducing their development risks and cost,” said A.G. Karunakaran (AGK), President of GDA Technologies. “inSilica’s decision to license our solutions is an excellent endorsement for our IP model and we are excited to be working with them on their new generation of SOC products.” The XGEMAC adheres to the IEEE 802.3ae standard and is available for both ASIC and FPGA implementations. Its simple, configurable and modular architecture is independent of application logic, PHY designs, implementation tools and most importantly target technologies. The XGEMAC provides XGMII interface to the line side and a flexible backend interface to the user logic on the system side. The XGEMAC has an extensive set of filtering capabilities based on source, destination, unicast, multicast, and broadcast addresses as well as being VLAN aware. The optional FIFO module supports configurable depths and watermarks with a variety of control options to support lossless flow control. The core also provides rate matching for OC-192 PHY components and a full set of statistics counters to support SNMP/RMON. About GDA Technologies, Inc. GDA Technologies Inc. is a leading Electronic Design Services (EDS) and Silicon Intellectual Property (SIP) solution provider for the embedded, networking, and consumer electronics markets. GDA specializes in designing ASICs, FPGAs, IPs, boards, SoCs, software and complete systems from concept to product. GDA has successfully developed products in the areas of desktop, server, and embedded computing, digital audio and video applications, Internet appliances, and voice and data networking applications. In the IP front, GDA has been the leading solution provider for fast interconnect technologies such as HyperTransport, PCI-Express, Ethernet and Advanced Switching with many licenses sold in compute, networking and communication markets. GDA is headquartered in San Jose, California, and has satellite design centers in Boston, Sacramento, Singapore, Chennai and Bangalore, India. The GDA web site is www.gdatech.com. About inSilica Inc. inSilica is a fabless semiconductor company which delivers customer specific SoCs. inSilica maintains responsibility for all IP procurement, physical design, fabrication, and back-end assembly and test operations delivering to its customers fully tested packaged devices. inSilica advises its customers on the lowest risk and least cost path while ensuring the resulting design meets customer’s performance objectives. inSilica’s world class engineering team possesses extensive design experience in advanced process technologies in digital, analog/mixed signal & RF designs inSilica is a global company with operations in Santa Clara CA, Long Beach CA, as well as Bangalore, India. For additional information please visit the inSilica web site at: www.insilica.com. Smart Networks Developer Forum (SNDF), Dallas – April 26, 2004 – GDA Technologies, Inc., a fast growing supplier of Electronic Design Services (EDS), announced the availability of its Reference Design Kit for the MPC8555 PowerQUICC™ III processor from Freescale Semiconductor, a wholly owned subsidiary of Motorola Inc. GDA’s Reference Design Kit is based on the MPC8555, a communications processor with integrated security from Freescale’s PowerQUICC III family. GDA’s reference platform is a PCI form factor board that supports dual PCI interfaces and a full complement of other features, including a SODIMM slot for DDR memory, Flash memory, two Gigabit Ethernet ports and a serial port. The GDA Reference Design Kit will be initially available with Embedded Linux Board Support Package. Support for other Operation Systems will be available in the third quarter of 2004. The MPC8555 RDK is a new addition to GDA’s portfolio of Freescale product-based reference designs designed for the PowerQUICC III family of communication processors. With the MPC8555 RDK, embedded developers, OEMs and system integrators who have become accustomed to other PowerQUICC III family products can migrate to a security-enabled product, while leveraging previous application development experiences to shorten the ever-critical time-to-market metric. The MPC8555 processor with integrated security provides a powerful, highly integrated processing solution for a multitude of compute-intensive communications and networking applications, ranging from VPN and regional office routers to enterprise-class storage and Ethernet switching equipment to residential gateways and integrated access devices. The MPC8555 processor’s security engine supports the widely used DES, 3DES, MD-5, SHA-1, AES, and ARC-4 encryption algorithms. It also offers a public key accelerator and an on-chip random number generator. “GDA has been one of the early enablers of the PowerQUICC III family of processors with reference designs around Freescale’s flagship MPC8540 and MPC8560 processors. We are excited to follow up with a new MPC8555 based reference design kit. Freescale Semiconductor is the industry leader in the communications processor market, and GDA will continue to provide solutions around this industry-leading family of processors,” said Gopa Periyadan, Vice President and GM of System and Software Design Business Unit at GDA. GDA is a member of Freescale’s Smart Networks Alliance Program (SNAP) in the capacity of a design services provider for hardware, software and reusable IP blocks. GDA is also a member of Freescale’s Design Alliance Program (DAP), which allows Freescale and its clients to utilize engineering design services offered by GDA in systems, boards, SoCs, ASICs, FPGAs and IPs. PRICE AND AVAILABILITY GDA’s Reference Design Kit for the MPC8555 PowerQUICC III processor is now available. Pricing details are available through GDA Sales at sales@gdatech.com. About GDA Technologies, Inc. GDA Technologies Inc. is a leading Electronic Design Services (EDS) and Silicon Intellectual Property (SIP) solution provider for the embedded, networking, and consumer electronics markets. GDA specializes in designing ASICs, FPGAs, IPs, boards, SoCs, software and complete systems from concept to product. GDA has successfully developed products in the areas of desktop, server, and embedded computing, digital audio and video applications, Internet appliances, and voice and data networking applications. In the IP front, GDA has been the leading solution provider for fast interconnect technologies such as HyperTransport, PCI-Express, Ethernet and Advanced Switching with many licenses sold in compute, networking and communication markets. GDA is headquartered in San Jose, California, and has satellite design centers in Boston, Sacramento, Singapore, Chennai and Bangalore, India. The GDA web site is www.gdatech.com. GDA Joins the RapidIO Trade Association San Jose, California – April 26, 2004 - GDA Technologies, Inc., a fast growing supplier of Silicon Intellectual Property (SIP) and Electronic Design Services (EDS), today announced the availability of GRIO (GDA RapidIO controller IP cores). GRIO IP cores are fully compliant with the Serial and Parallel RapidIO specifications and are targeted for embedded, communications and networking applications. The GRIO solution is derived from the RapidIO technology-based controller design licensed from Freescale Semiconductor, a wholly owned subsidiary of Motorola Inc. GRIO IP is packaged as a highly configurable, reusable design and marketed worldwide by GDA as the GRIO RapidIO IP family. GDA also announced today that it has joined the RapidIO Trade Association and will become an active member of the association in accelerating its global deployment. “RapidIO interconnect architecture provides best-in-class features in performance, scalability and reliability, which are fundamental requirements for connectivity in high-speed applications. Our GRIO IP cores provide a set of features and capabilities that will foster new generations of innovative products based on RapidIO technology," said Prakash Bare, vice president of IP business at GDA. “We look forward to working with the RapidIO Trade Association to make the RapidIO fabric one of the compelling technology choices for backplane, board, mezzanine, and device interconnectivity.” “The RapidIO Trade Association is delighted that GDA Technologies is introducing its RapidIO IP cores to the market,” said Sam Fuller, president of the RapidIO Trade Association. “Customers are demanding RapidIO-based solutions for their next-generation embedded systems and proven IP offerings like GDA Technologies' GRIO IP core will find a large and ready market.” The RapidIO interconnect architecture, designed to be compatible with the most popular integrated communications processors, host processors, and networking digital signal processors, is a high-performance, packet-switched, interconnect technology. It addresses the high-performance embedded industry's need for reliability, increased bandwidth, and faster bus speeds in an intra-system interconnect. The RapidIO interconnect allows chip-to-chip and board-to-board communications at performance levels scaling to ten Gigabits per second and beyond. The GRIO IP cores adhere to the latest RapidIO specifications and are available for both ASIC and FPGA implementations. The cores are designed for reuse, and their flexible backend interfaces enable easy integration into wide range of applications. GRIO’s configurable and modular architecture is optimized for latency, reliability, and small silicon footprint and is independent of application logic, PHY designs, and target technologies. Key features of the GRIO IP cores include: * Compliant with the latest RapidIO specifications * Supports Serial and Parallel RapidIO * Optimally supports Standard Cell, FPGA, and Gate Array * Provides roadmap to future RapidIO specification revisions. GDA offers a broad portfolio of foundry-independent IP cores available for embedded, networking, communications, and computing applications. As part of the IP licensing package, GDA provides an extensive set of documentation and customer support capabilities. The IP package consists of Verilog RTL code, a verification environment, test cases, and detailed design documentations. GDA offers a suite of design services for customization and integration of the IP cores into each customer’s ICs and FPGAs. PRICE AND AVAILABILITY The GRIO RapidIO IP cores and the IP validation platform are available now. For pricing and detailed information, please email at ip@gdatech.com, or visit www.gdatech.com. About GDA Technologies, Inc. GDA Technologies Inc. is a leading Electronic Design Services (EDS) and Silicon Intellectual Property (SIP) solution provider for the embedded, networking, and consumer electronics markets. GDA specializes in designing ASICs, FPGAs, IPs, boards, SoCs, software and complete systems from concept to product. GDA has successfully developed products in the areas of desktop, server, and embedded computing, digital audio and video applications, Internet appliances, and voice and data networking applications. In the IP front, GDA has been the leading solution provider for fast interconnect technologies such as HyperTransport, PCI-Express, Ethernet and Advanced Switching with many licenses sold in compute, networking and communication markets. GDA is headquartered in San Jose, California, and has satellite design centers in Boston, Sacramento, Singapore, Chennai and Bangalore, India. The GDA web site is www.gdatech.com. About the RapidIO Trade Association. The RapidIO Trade Association and its global members drive the RapidIO® interconnect architecture. This ISO-certified, open-standard seamlessly enables the chip-to-chip, board-to-board, control, backplane and data plane interconnections needed in high-performance networking, communications and embedded systems. RapidIO-based products are shipping now, including silicon chips, boards and systems. Detailed information on the RapidIO specification, products, design tools, member companies, and membership is available at www.RapidIO.org. Semiconductor Selects GDA Technologies for Interconnect IP Cores San Jose, California, April 26, 2004 – GDA Technologies, Inc., a fast growing supplier of Silicon Intellectual Property (SIP) and Electronic Design Services (EDS), today announced Freescale Semiconductor, a wholly owned subsidiary of Motorola Inc., has licensed IP cores from GDA. The licensed IP cores are part of GDA’s interconnect IP portfolio and are planned to be integrated into Freescale’s next-generation semiconductor products. The licensed IP cores are high performance interconnect controller solutions optimized for bandwidth, latency, reliability, and silicon footprint for ASIC and FPGA implementations. “Freescale is known for pioneering a plethora of technologies to deliver some of the most revolutionary semiconductor products worldwide, and we are proud to be working with them,” said Prakash Bare, Vice President of IP Business at GDA Technologies Inc. “Being selected by Freescale provides a strong endorsement and testament to our innovation and leadership in the high-speed interconnect IP market.” About GDA Technologies, Inc. GDA Technologies Inc. is a leading Electronic Design Services (EDS) and Silicon Intellectual Property (SIP) solution provider for the embedded, networking, and consumer electronics markets. GDA specializes in designing ASICs, FPGAs, IPs, boards, SoCs, software and complete systems from concept to product. GDA has successfully developed products in the areas of desktop, server, and embedded computing, digital audio and video applications, Internet appliances, and voice and data networking applications. In the IP front, GDA has been the leading solution provider for fast interconnect technologies such as HyperTransport, PCI-Express, Ethernet and Advanced Switching with many licenses sold in compute, networking and communication markets. GDA is headquartered in San Jose, California, and has satellite design centers in Boston, Sacramento, Singapore, Chennai and Bangalore, India. The GDA web site is www.gdatech.com. The Advanced Switching IP cores strengthens GDA’s PCI Express product family San Jose, California – February 17, 2004 - GDA Technologies, Inc., a fast growing supplier of Intellectual Property (IP) and Electronic Design Services (EDS), today announced that it will be offering a comprehensive set of Advanced Switching (AS) IP cores for both ASIC and FPGA implementations. The IP offerings include MAC, Data Link, and Transaction layers and all the defined Protocol Interfaces: SLS, SQ, SDT and PI-8. In addition, GDA provides complete suite of FPGA, boards and software design services for AS based products. Addition of these AS modules significantly strengthens GDA’s PCI Express (GPEX) IP family. These IPs target Native AS end point controllers, leaf and root bridges, AS switches and dual mode PCI Express Base/AS interface controllers. By using GDA’s reusable Advanced Switching IP cores and it’s related AS services system designers can greatly reduce development risks and time to market for their next generation products. “The ASI SIG has seen strong interest from leading companies to develop the building-block components required for the communications industry to transition from proprietary switched interconnects and data fabrics to the standards-based Advanced Switching switched interconnects,” said Rajeev Kumar, President, ASI SIG and Advanced Switching Initiatives manager at Intel. “We expect availability of key enabling tools such as IP cores, such as those from GDA, verification IP, FPGAs and silicon starting in 2004 to enable the roll-out of full systems by the end of 2005.” The Advanced Switching specification is an extension of PCI Express* interconnect technology. It adds advanced communications features to PCI Express technology in order to meet the requirements of the next generation of networking, storage and communications solutions. “We are dedicated to creating IP solutions with the highest-quality,” said Prakash Bare, Vice President of IP Business at GDA Technologies Inc. “Our GPEX IP family, a comprehensive portfolio of Advanced Switching and PCI Express IP cores, give our customers complete confidence that their next-generation products will be compliant to the specifications and interoperable with other AS and PCI Express solutions, while maintaining an aggressive time-to-market schedule.” GDA is a member of the ASI SIG, Intel® Developer Network for PCI Express Architecture, PCISIG, and PICMG. PRICE AND AVAILABILITY The Advanced Switching IP cores will be available in Q4, 2004. The GDA PCI Express (GPEX) IP core, AS MAC and Data Link Layers are available now. For more information please email at ip@gdatech.com, or visit www.gdatech.com. About GDA Technologies, Inc. GDA Technologies Inc. is a leading design services company with high value IP, value added design services and flexible engineering resources for the embedded, networking, and consumer electronics market segments. GDA has developed many high performance IP cores for compute, and networking interfaces including HyperTransport, 10 Gigabit Ethernet MAC, and SPI4.2. Moreover, GDA focuses on designing systems, boards, SOCs, ASICs, FPGA's concept to product. It has successfully developed IPs and products in the areas of high speed handheld embedded solutions, digital video applications, Internet appliances, voice and data networking applications and non-form factor PC architectures. GDA is headquartered in San Jose, Calif., and has satellite design centers in Boston, Sacramento, Singapore, Chennai and Bangalore, India. The GDA web site is www.gdatech.com. San Jose, California – February 5, 2004 – GDA Technologies, Inc., a fast growing supplier of Electronic Design Services (EDS), recently announced that its Quality Management System has been certified as compliant with the International Standard ISO 9001:2000. GDA has certified its Printed Wiring Board Design Services Business Unit as compliant with the ISO standard. This achievement was a direct result of the organization working together in effectively developing and maintaining the Quality System in order to be certified. As a supplier of design services, GDA understands the importance of highest level of quality and customer satisfaction is vital to its success. A successful certification is a testament to GDA Technologies’ commitment to quality and to continuous improvement of its quality processes. GDA selected Bureau Veritas Quality International (BVQi) as its partner in this certification process. BVQi has certified over 30,000 companies around the world. BVQi (www.us.bvqi.com) played an important role in stressing the importance of continuous improvement and adding value at every stage of the Quality Management System. “GDA’s development and implementation of an effective quality management system demonstrates their commitment to customer satisfaction as a key element of business success,” said Dick Villacres, BVQIna Lead Assessor. GDA offers System, ASIC/FPGA and Printed Wiring Board design services for companies in broadband networking, appliances, server farm, wireless and high-end embedded computing space. Apart from design services, GDA proactively builds emerging technology soft core IP for integration into ASIC/FPGA product development for customer-specific solutions. “GDA’s core competency is providing value to its customer’s product development process by combining customer’s technology offering with GDA’s proven design flow and methodology. Therefore, it is important that GDA’s processes are governed by the highest quality standards to provide consistency in quality and continuous improvement. By adopting the world class ISO standard, GDA’s endorses it commitment to its customers, which is to deliver quality solutions and foster long term product development partnerships,” said A.G. Karunakaran, President of GDA Technologies, Inc. About GDA Technologies, Inc. GDA Technologies Inc. is a leading design services company with high value IP, value added design services and flexible engineering resources for the embedded, networking, and consumer electronics market segments. GDA has developed many high performance IP cores for compute, and networking interfaces including HyperTransport, 10 Gigabit Ethernet MAC, and SPI4.2. Moreover, GDA focuses on designing systems, boards, SOCs, ASICs, FPGA's concept to product. It has successfully developed IPs and products in the areas of high speed handheld embedded solutions, digital video applications, Internet appliances, voice and data networking applications and non-form factor PC architectures. GDA is headquartered in San Jose, Calif., and has satellite design centers in Boston, Sacramento, Singapore, Chennai and Bangalore, India. The GDA web site is www.gdatech.com. San Jose, California, December 15, 2003 – GDA Technologies, Inc., a fast growing supplier of Intellectual Property (IP) and Electronic Design Services (EDS), today announced that QLogic Corp., the company that powers storage area networks (SANs), has selected GDA for PCI Express cores to broaden the company’s ongoing PCI Express product development efforts. The GDA PCI Express Controller core, called GPEX, is integrated into QLogic Fiber Channel and iSCSI products for storage area networks. GPEX is a highly configurable core that is optimized for link utilization, latency, reliability, and silicon footprint for both ASIC and FPGA implementations. “GDA is a leader in the emerging market for PCI Express products,” said Frank Berry, vice president of Marketing, QLogic Corp. “GPEX technology is helping QLogic provide highly integrated PCI-Express products that deliver outstanding reliability and performance.” “QLogic is a leader in their market space and we are excited to work with them,” said Prakash Bare, Vice President of IP Business at GDA Technologies Inc. “The QLogic design-win is a validation of our PCI Express IP core quality, because it is noted throughout the industry that they select the best class of solutions for their products.” GPEX adheres to the PCI Express 1.0a specifications and is available for both ASIC and FPGA implementations. It supports endpoint, bridge, switch and root complex solutions. It includes MAC, data link and transaction layers. GPEX supports PIPE based PHY architecture and provides a flexible packet oriented user logic interface. GPEX Configurable options include number of lanes (up to 16), number of virtual channels (up to 8), maximum payload size (up to 4K Bytes), and transmit retry/receive buffer size. GPEX provides flow control support for both directions and completely handles PCI Express ordering rules. GDA is a member of the Intel® Developer Network for PCI Express Architecture, Intel® Communications Alliance, PCISIG, Arapahoe Working Group and PICMG. About GDA Technologies, Inc. GDA Technologies Inc. is a leading design services company with high value IP, value added design services and flexible engineering resources for the embedded, networking, and consumer electronics market segments. GDA has developed many high performance IP cores for compute, and networking interfaces including HyperTransport, 10 Gigabit Ethernet MAC, and SPI4.2. Moreover, GDA focuses on designing systems, boards, SOCs, ASICs, FPGA's concept to product. It has successfully developed IPs and products in the areas of high speed handheld embedded solutions, digital video applications, Internet appliances, voice and data networking applications and non-form factor PC architectures. GDA is headquartered in San Jose, Calif., and has satellite design centers in Boston, Sacramento, Singapore, Chennai and Bangalore, India. The GDA web site is www.gdatech.com. SAN JOSE – October 21, 2003 – GDA Technologies, Inc., a fast growing supplier of Electronic Design Services (EDS), today announced the release of its Reference Design Kit for the Intel® IXP2400 and Intel® IXP2800 network processors. The reference designs from GDA are based on industry standard form factors that will enable early designing of systems and equipment based on Intel network processors. GDA’s IXP2400 Reference Design Kit is a PCI adapter card compliant with the PCI Local Bus Specification, Version 2.2 interface for 64-bit / 66 MHz I/O Card where as the Reference Design Kit based on the IXP2800 is designed to serve as a PrPMC (Processor PCI Mezzanine Card) platform and is compliant with VME-Bus International Trade Association (VITA) 32 Standard. IXP2400 Reference Design Kit Features: The GDA Technologies IXP2400 Reference Design Kit features the fully programmable, high-performance Intel IXP2400 network processor. It has an OC48 Interface, two Gigabit Ethernet Interfaces and a full complement of other features, including a SODIMM slot for DDR memory, Flash memory, QDR-II SRAM and a Serial port for easy debugging. The GDA IXP2400 RDK comes with the Embedded Linux board support package. This design kit is an ideal platform for embedded developers, Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) and system integrators who want a flexible development environment around the Intel IXP2400 network processor. The PCI interface enables the board to be used as a ready-made plug-in CPU module. The other features allow the board to be used as a control/management processor sub-system in a variety of system designs. The RDK can also serve as a bridge between OC and Ethernet interfaces. IXP2800 Reference Design Kit Features: The GDA Technologies’ IXP2800 reference design kit offers a rich feature set that includes QDR Memory, RDRAM modules and Flash Memory, thereby providing developers great flexibility to explore various development applications around the Intel IXP2800 network processor. The GDA IXP2800 RDK can be used to run various applications that have an aggregate bandwidth of 10 Gbps, with the help of an external daughter card through the SPI.4-2 interface. These applications range from SONET/SDH to POS and from ATM to Gigabit Ethernet. The PMC form factor makes this platform an ideal choice for System Integrators and OEMs to use as a plug-in network processor module on System controller cards, Mother boards, I/O peripheral boards, server blades and security servers. The board is also available with the Intel IXP2850 network processor. The GDA IXP2800 RDK comes with the Embedded Linux board support package. "The Intel IXP2400 and the Intel IXP2800 are the leading network processors in the industry today with their powerful performance and flexibility of programming. GDA has and will continue to invest a lot of its design and embedded software knowledge and expertise around Intel’s family of network processors, “said Gopa Periyadan, Vice President of System and Software Design Services at GDA Technologies. “Our goal it to help Intel’s customers reduce cost, risk and time-to-market while they design products and systems around these processors.” At present Embedded Linux operating system is supported on both reference platforms. GDA will also offer its embedded software services for porting other popular embedded operating systems. In addition, GDA has also created a valuable debug and diagnostics software tool around these processors and is available with both platforms. This tool provides a basic boot monitor along with extensive diagnostic routines and loop-back tests. This tool will allow customers to shorten debug and test cycle time, which is a significant portion of the product development cycle. "The GDA reference design kits and electronic design services for the Intel IXP2400 and Intel IXP2800 network processors will provide equipment developers important options to help accelerate or sub-contract some of their product development," said Doug Davis, general manager of the Intel Network Processor Division. Intel network processor customers can also utilize the engineering design services offered by GDA in systems, boards, PCB layouts, and SOC development, ASICs FPGAs and IPs to customize this GDA reference design for their specific applications. The GDA design package connects Intel customers to the best design resources for their specific engineering, software development and validation requirements. Pricing and Availability GDA’s IXP2400 and IXP2800 Reference Design Kits are now available. Pricing details are available through GDA Sales at sales@gdatech.com. About GDA Technologies, Inc. GDA Technologies Inc. is a leading design services company with high value IP, value added design services and flexible engineering resources for the embedded, networking, and consumer electronics market segments. GDA has developed many high performance IP cores for compute, and networking interfaces including HyperTransport, 10 Gigabit Ethernet MAC, and SPI4.2. Moreover, GDA focuses on designing systems, boards, SOCs, ASICs, FPGA's concept to product. It has successfully developed IPs and products in the areas of high speed handheld embedded solutions, digital video applications, Internet appliances, voice and data networking applications and non-form factor PC architectures. GDA is headquartered in San Jose, Calif., and has satellite design centers in Boston, Sacramento, Singapore, Chennai and Bangalore, India. The GDA web site is www.gdatech.com. Intel is a registered trademark of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries. GDA joins the Arapahoe Working Group to help lead Industry transition to Advanced Switching. San Jose, California – October 1, 2003 - GDA Technologies, Inc., a fast growing supplier of Intellectual Property (IP) and Electronic Design Services (EDS), today announced that it has joined the Arapahoe Working Group (AWG) and is contributing to the development of the Advanced Switching (AS) specifications. GDA will also extend its system services including FPGA, boards and software designs for the next generation of Advanced Switching products based on ATCA platforms. The Advanced Switching specification is an extension of PCI Express* interconnect technology. It adds advanced communications features to PCI Express technology in order to meet the requirements of the next generation of networking, storage and communications solutions. “GDA's participation in Advanced Switching development is a natural progression of our leadership in providing services to PCI-Express based products," said Gopa Periyadan, vice president and GM of system and software business unit at GDA. "We look forward to offering our system services and helping to define the AS spec for the new architecture, which offers our networking and storage customers advanced communications features to meet the requirements of their next generation of products.” “GDA’s involvement in the Advanced Switching development, along with that of other companies, will contribute in accelerating the adoption and proliferation of PCI Express-based interconnect technologies,” said Rajeev Kumar, AWG chair and Advanced Switching technology manager, Intel Communications Group. “Advanced Switching Technology offers the networking and communication industries opportunities to architect exciting and innovative products, while providing cost, reusability of technology and time-to-market benefits.” GDA is a member of the Intel® Developer Network for PCI Express Architecture, PCISIG, Arapahoe Working Group and PICMG. About GDA Technologies, Inc. GDA Technologies Inc. is a leading design services company with high value IP, value added design services and flexible engineering resources for the embedded, networking, and consumer electronics market segments. GDA has developed many high performance IP cores for compute, and networking interfaces including HyperTransport, 10 Gigabit Ethernet MAC, and SPI4.2. Moreover, GDA focuses on designing systems, boards, SOCs, ASICs, FPGA's concept to product. It has successfully developed IPs and products in the areas of high speed handheld embedded solutions, digital video applications, Internet appliances, voice and data networking applications and non-form factor PC architectures. GDA is headquartered in San Jose, Calif., and has satellite design centers in Boston, Sacramento, Singapore, Chennai and Bangalore, India. The GDA web site is www.gdatech.com. INTEL DEVELOPER FORUM, San Jose, California – September 16, 2003 – GDA Technologies, Inc., a fast growing supplier of Intellectual Property (IP) and Electronic Design Services (EDS), today announced that it has enhanced its PCI Express IP family by offering PCI-Xactor from Avery Design Systems. PCI-Xactor is a comprehensive PCI Express verification IP solution for Endpoint, Root Complex, Switch and Bridge designs that will be included in GDA’s PCI Express IP core offerings. GPEX, the first PCI Express IP from GDA includes the PCI-Xactor verification solution. The PCI-Xactor is also available as standalone product through GDA. “GDA’s complete PCI Express IP solutions empower designers to implement exciting and innovative PCI Express-compliant products while significantly reducing design risks and verification time," said Prakash Bare, Vice President of IP Business at GDA Technologies Inc. “Avery’s verification IP forms an important component of our PCI Express offerings. We are pleased to be working with Avery team to provide our PCI Express customers unparallel quality and robustness in verification front.” “GDA is a proven IP supplier and Avery is pleased to partner with GDA to streamline PCI Express IP implementation for our customers,” said Chris Browy, Vice President of Marketing at Avery Design Systems. “Together the companies will develop an integrated solution addressing PCI Express Endpoint, Root Complex, and Switch/Bridge implementations. Support for wide range of system topologies and PCI protocols enable customers to speed up compliance verification of GDA-based PCI Express designs.” The GDA PCI Express Endpoint IP core, called GPEX adheres to the PCI Express 1.0a specifications and is available for both ASIC and FPGA implementations. It supports endpoint, bridge, switch and root complex solutions. It includes MAC, data link and transaction layers. GPEX supports PIPE based PHY architecture and provides a flexible packet oriented user logic interface with an optional DMA controller. GPEX Configurable options include number of lanes (up to 16), number of virtual channels (up to 8), maximum payload size (up to 4K Bytes), and transmit retry/receive buffer size. GPEX provides flow control support for both directions and completely handles PCI Express ordering rules. The PCI-Xactor Verification IP solution provides Verilog-based BFMs, transaction generation and protocol analyzer functions, checklist coverage, and a functional compliance test suite including test coverage. The functional compliance test suite is based on Intel® and PCI SIG test specifications. The Bus Exerciser provides a PCI transaction API for the generation of directed and random bus traffic. The PCI-Xactor Endpoint solution supports multiple root complexes and endpoints BFMs. The PCI-Xactor Switch/Bridge solution supports a switch BFM and a multi-link protocol analyzer to verification transaction ordering and completion rules. BFMs can be programmed to generate transactions or completions with normal or exceptional behaviors using over 20 different TL/DLL/PHY parameters. GDA and Avery Design Systems are members of the Intel® Developer Network for PCI Express Architecture and PCISIG. Pricing and Availability For pricing and detailed information on GDA PCI Express IP cores and PCI-Xactor verification IP solutions, please email at ip@gdatech.com. About Avery Design Systems Avery Design Systems Inc. is a supplier of intelligent HDL-based functional verification products and service that enables dramatic productivity improvements of the ASIC-based systems and SOC verification process. Our products include TesetWizard transaction-based testbench automation supporting native Verilog and VHDL, SimCluster parallel simulation which speeds simulations up to 10X using existing simulators, and PCI-Xactor Verification solutions for PCI, PCI-X, and PCI Express. Additional information about Avery Design Systems is available at http://www.avery-design.com. About GDA Technologies, Inc. GDA Technologies Inc. is a leading design services company with high value IP, value added design services and flexible engineering resources for the embedded, networking, and consumer electronics markets. GDA has developed many high performance IP cores for compute, and networking interfaces including HyperTransport, 10 Gigabit Ethernet MAC, and SPI4.2. Moreover, GDA focuses on designing systems, boards, SOCs, ASICs, FPGA's concept to product. It has successfully developed IPs and products in the areas of high speed handheld embedded solutions, digital video applications, Internet appliances, voice and data networking applications and non-form factor PC architectures. GDA is headquartered in San Jose, Calif., and has satellite design centers in Boston, Sacramento, Singapore, Chennai and Bangalore, India. The GDA web site is http://www.gdatech.com. INTEL DEVELOPER FORUM, San Jose, California – September 16, 2003 – GDA Technologies, Inc., a fast growing supplier of Intellectual Property (IP) and Electronic Design Services (EDS), today announced the GPEX, GDA PCI Express IP core, providing the computing, networking, and communications industries a significant enabler for development of silicon based products supporting PCI Express architecture. The GPEX is a rich featured and highly flexible core supporting endpoint, root complex, switch, and bridge applications. GPEX’s architecture is carefully tailored to optimize link utilization, latency, reliability, power consumption, and silicon footprint for both ASIC and FPGA implementations. “We are committed to providing our customers cost-effective, compliant and interoperable PCI Express IP products," said Prakash Bare, Vice President of IP Business at GDA Technologies Inc. "Our extensive experience in developing high performance IP cores for compute and networking interfaces has played a significant role in creating GPEX which delivers unprecedented performance, configurability, and scalability features to a wide variety of applications.” "Wide availability of PCI Express IP from companies like GDA promotes faster time-to-market for companies developing PCI Express components,” said David Formisano, Ecosystem Initiatives Manager in the Communications Infrastructure Group at Intel. “This enables companies to migrate products to PCI Express more rapidly than was possible with previous technology transitions.” The GPEX adheres to the PCI Express 1.0a specifications and is available for both ASIC and FPGA implementations. It supports endpoint, bridge, switch and root complex solutions. It includes MAC, data link and transaction layers. GPEX supports PIPE based PHY architecture and provides a flexible packet oriented user logic interface with an optional DMA controller. GPEX Configurable options include number of lanes (up to 16), number of virtual channels (up to 8), maximum payload size (up to 4K Bytes), and transmit retry/receive buffer size. GPEX provides flow control support for both directions and completely handles PCI Express ordering rules. GDA will be participating at IDF Fall 2003, September 16-18 at the San Jose Convention Center in San Jose, California. GDA Technologies is an Affiliate Member with the Intel® Communications Alliance, a community of communications and embedded developers and solution providers. For more information, please visit www.intel.com/go/ica. Pricing and Availability For pricing and detailed information on GPEX and the IP validation platform, please email at ip@gdatech.com. About GDA Technologies, Inc. GDA Technologies, Inc. is a leading design services company specializing in embedded, networking and consumer electronic designs. GDA focused on designing Systems, Boards, SOCs, ASICs, FPGAs and IPs from concept to product. GDA has successfully developed products in areas of Networking, Digital Video, Internet Appliances and Hand Held Solutions. GDA is headquartered in San Jose, CA and has satellite design centers in Sacramento, Boston, Chennai and Bangalore. GDA’s web site is at www.gdatech.com. San Jose, California, August 28, 2003 – GDA Technologies, Inc., a fast growing supplier of Intellectual Property (IP) and Electronic Design Services (EDS), today announced XGEMAC[Prakash1], the industry’s first UNH-IOL Compliance Validated 10 Gigabit Ethernet Media Access Controller, citing it as an important building block in the infrastructure needed to advance 10Gigabit Ethernet transport technology into Wide Area, Metro and Local Area Networks. The XGEMAC is a rich featured, highly configurable core and is fully compliant to the IEEE 802.3ae specification. The XGEMAC has successfully completed interoperability testing conducted at the University of New Hampshire (UNH-IOL) InterOperability Laboratory on July 25, 2003. “GDA’s highly flexible system validation platform, exhaustively validated XGEMAC design and their in-house Ethernet expertise allowed them to complete the conformance testing very quickly, in just a few days,” said Bob Noseworthy, 10 Gigabit Ethernet Consortium manager at the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Lab. “GDA’s XGEMAC IP successfully completed all the 10 Gigabit Ethernet conformance tests and hence offers additional confidence to its future licensees that their products will be in compliance with IEEE 802.3ae specification. We are very happy to see GDA leading this new trend in IP business in which the vendors are going all the way in creating system implementations and compliance validation. It aligns very well with our charter at UNH IOL of fostering industry wide 10G Ethernet interoperability and compliance.” “The XGEMAC is a cost-effective, highly configurable and end-to-end system validated solution for switch, router and NIC designers,” said Prakash Bare, Vice President of IP Business at GDA Technologies Inc. “Through the XGEMAC offering, we provide the system designers a 10 Gigabit Ethernet MAC design that has low latency, high throughput, small foot print, and is ready-to-go for easy integration into ASIC and FPGA implementations.” The XGEMAC adheres to the IEEE 802.3ae standard and is available for both ASIC and FPGA implementations. Its simple, configurable and modular architecture is independent of application logic, PHY designs, implementation tools and most importantly target technologies. The XGEMAC provides XGMII interface to the line side and a flexible backend interface to the user logic on the system side. The XGEMAC has an extensive set of filtering capabilities based on source, destination, unicast, multicast, and broadcast addresses as well as being VLAN aware. The optional FIFO module supports configurable depths and watermarks with a variety of control options to support lossless flow control. The core also provides rate matching for OC-192 PHY components and a full set of statistics counters to support SNMP/RMON. “10 Gigabit Ethernet is the continuation of the Ethernet evolution within and beyond the enterprise and will enable end-to-end Ethernet network topologies. 10Gigabit Ethernet will speed the proliferation of Ethernet technology into MAN, WAN, Storage Area Networks (SAN) and Network-Attached Storage (NAS) markets due to its economics, simplicity and interoperability, “said AGK, President of GDA Technologies. “ The XGEMAC is a great contributor to the proliferation of Ethernet technology into the mass networking market.” Pricing and Availability The XGEMAC and the IP validation platform are available now. More information on these products and pricing details are available through ip@gdatech.com. About the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory. 10 Gigabit Ethernet Consortium Established in 1988, the University of New Hampshire's InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL) is a non-profit organization that offers comprehensive interoperability and conformance-based testing through 15 technology-based groups, called Consortiums. The 10 Gigabit Ethernet Consortium, formed in 2000, offers testing based on the IEEE 802.3ae standard. Other Consortiums at the UNH-IOL include: ADSL, Bridge Functions, DOCSIS, Fast Ethernet, Fiber Channel, Gigabit Ethernet, IPv6, iSCSI, MPLS, Power over Ethernet, Routing, SHDSL, VDSL, and Wireless. Test solutions created at the UNH-IOL offer a set of methods to increase interoperability through protocol operations, signaling, point-to-point and multi-system scenarios. For more information, visit the UNH-IOL website at: www.iol.unh.edu. About GDA Technologies, Inc. GDA Technologies, Inc. is a leading design services company specializing in embedded, networking and consumer electronic designs. GDA focused on designing Systems, Boards, SOCs, ASICs, FPGAs and IPs from concept to product. GDA has successfully developed products in areas of Networking, Digital Video, Internet Appliances and Hand Held Solutions. GDA is headquartered in San Jose, CA and has satellite design centers in Sacramento, Boston, Chennai and Bangalore. GDA’s web site is at www.gdatech.com. SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 2, 2003 – The HyperTransport™ Technology Consortium, the nonprofit industry organization that manages the HyperTransport technology specification, today announced that the Consortium’s Infrastructure Task Force has voted to adopt the HT8000 HyperTransport Compatibility Platform co-developed by member companies GDA Technologies, Inc. and Xilinx, Inc. as a recommended HyperTransport compatibility test fixture. This platform, commercially available from GDA Technologies, incorporates the Consortium approved DUT (Device Under Test) Connector and can be used to verify the compliance of Integrated Circuits (ICs) with HyperTransport Caves, Tunnels, Switches, and Host Bridges to the approved HyperTransport Compliance Check List. HyperTransport technology is licensed on a royalty-free basis through the HyperTransport Technology Consortium and is a universal chip-to-chip I/O technology that provides high bandwidth, scalability, low-cost implementations and software compatibility with legacy PCI I/O technology. “This new Compatibility Platform from GDA Technologies is an important product for the HyperTransport-enabled market,” said Gabriele Sartori, President of the HyperTransport Technology Consortium. “As the HyperTransport market grows rapidly from over 30 million ports shipped in 2003 to over 200 million ports in 2006, it is imperative that the consumers of HyperTransport-enabled devices and systems be assured that they will be compatible." “This will undoubtedly spur a wider adoption of HyperTransport technology,” said Brian Holden, Principal Engineer in PMC-Sierra’s MIPS Processor Division and Chair of the HyperTransport Consortium Technical Working Group. “Both semiconductor and system vendors are likely to find this Consortium recommended Compatibility Platform a useful tool for verifying the interoperability of HyperTransport-enabled devices.” Todd Hironaka, Chair of the HyperTransport Infrastructure Task Force, added, “This commercially available interoperability platform is very attractive for the HyperTransport community. GDA Technologies is providing a very important tool for system manufacturers to use to determine interoperability of devices.” The GDA Technologies HT8000 HyperTransport Compatibility Platform is a 12.25” by 6.5” printed circuit board with a Virtex-II Series FPGA from Xilinx, multiple HyperTransport I/O links and two types of specialized interfaces. One is the HyperTransport Compatibility Program defined device-under-test or DUT connector, to which a HyperTransport device or subsystem can be linked to the HT8000 board. The second is a test fixture socket compatible with the FuturePlus Systems HyperTransport Analysis Probe for the Agilent Logic Analyzer. FuturePlus, Agilent and Xilinx are HyperTransport Consortium members. “The HT 8000 platform is an important new offering from GDA’s HyperTransport program. It allows semiconductor and system companies to ensure their HyperTransport based ICs are interoperable with other HT enabled devices,” said Prakash Bare, Vice President of IP Business at GDA Technologies. “Our unmatched HyperTransport offerings are designed to enable our customers get to the market quickly while reducing their development risks and cost.” "The availability of a compatibility test platform will be well received by HyperTransport designers", said Ron DiGiuseppe, Sr. Marketing Manager for IP Cores at Xilinx. "It will help accelerate compatibility testing and enable rapid deployment of HyperTransport interconnects. Xilinx is pleased to have worked with GDA Technologies and the HyperTransport Consortium during the design and development of the board." With over 40 HyperTransport technology-based products and services already announced and the specification’s preservation of software investments that already exist with the Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) today, HyperTransport technology has established a significant footprint in a number of key market segments. The HyperTransport product portfolio includes tunnel, bridge, graphic and switch chips from AMD, ALi, Alliance Semiconductor, NVIDIA, PLX Technology, and VIA Technologies; programmable-logic devices from Altera and Xilinx; processors and security processors from AMD, Broadcom, Cavium, Hifn, PMC-Sierra, and Transmeta; IP cores from Altera, GDA Technologies, Nurlogic, and Xilinx; BIOS software from AMI and Phoenix Technologies; verification and test tools from 0-In Design Automation, Agilent, FuturePlus, GDA Technologies, Schlumberger, Teradyne and TransEDA; and training courses and a book from Mindshare. For a full product listing, please visit: http://www.hypertransport.org/featuredproducts/products.html. Pricing and Availability The HT8000 is now available now from GDA Technologies. The platform supports Xilinx Virtex- II devices ranging from 34 million system -gates to 68 million system -gates. FPGAs The HT8000 is available with Embedded Linux. Pricing details are available through GDA sales at info@gdatech.com. About GDA Technologies, Inc. GDA Technologies, Inc. is a leading design services company specializing in embedded, networking and consumer electronic designs. GDA focused on designing Systems, Boards, SOCs, ASICs, FPGAs and IPs from concept to product. GDA has successfully developed products in areas of Networking, Digital Video, Internet Appliances and Hand Held Solutions. GDA is headquartered in San Jose, CA and has satellite design centers in Sacramento, Boston, Chennai and Bangalore. GDA’s web site is at www.gdatech.com. About HyperTransport™ Technology HyperTransport universal chip-to-chip interconnect technology replaces and improves upon existing multilevel buses used in systems such as personal computers, servers and embedded systems while maintaining software compatibility with PCI I/O technologies. HyperTransport technology delivers a maximum 12.8 GB/second aggregate bandwidth using easy to manufacture dual, unidirectional point-to-point links. Enhanced 1.2V low-power LVDS signaling and dual-data rate data transfers deliver increased data throughput while minimizing signal crosstalk and EMI. HyperTransport interconnect technology employs a packet-based data protocol to eliminate many sideband signals (control and command signals) and supports asymmetric, variable width data paths. About the HyperTransport™ Technology Consortium The HyperTransport Technology Consortium is a non-profit organization managed by its members that is dedicated to promoting HyperTransport technology as an open, freely available industry specification for high bandwidth chip-to-chip communications. Membership in the consortium is open to any industry participant for a modest administrative fee and includes the rights to royalty-free use of HyperTransport technology Intellectual Property. More information can be obtained from the HyperTransport Technology Consortium website at www.hypertransport.org. Advanced Micro Devices, Alliance Semiconductor, Apple Computer, Broadcom Corporation, Cisco Systems, NVIDIA, PMC-Sierra, Sun Microsystems, and Transmeta are promoter members and comprise the Executive Committee of the HyperTransport Technology Consortium. Companies interested in HyperTransport technology are invited to join the consortium. Consortium members pay modest annual dues and receive a royalty-free license to use the HyperTransport IP of the consortium members, gain access to additional technical documentation and may attend consortium meetings and events. To become a member, visit the consortium Web site at www.hypertransport.org. HyperTransport is a licensed trademark of the HyperTransport Technology Consortium. The HyperTransport Consortium, the non-profit industry organization that manages the HyperTransport technology specification, has adopted the HT8000 for its HyperTransport compatibility testing program. SAN JOSE, CA – June 2, 2003 – GDA Technologies, Inc., a fast growing supplier of Intellectual Property and Electronic Design Services, and Xilinx (NASDAQ:XLNX), the worldwide leader of programmable logic solutions, today announced the availability of the HT8000, the industry’s first HyperTransport Compatibility Test Platform. The HT8000 was co-developed by GDA and Xilinx in support of the HyperTransport Consortium’s Compatibility Program (http://hypertransport.org/compatibility.html). The HT8000 allows semiconductor and system companies to accelerate the development and deployment of their HyperTransport based systems by streamlining design-in, test, validation, and compatibility testing of HyperTransport-based devices. The HyperTransport Consortium, the non-profit industry organization that manages the HyperTransport technology specification, has adopted the HT8000 for its HyperTransport compatibility testing program. The HT8000 is a powerful tool for designers tasked with conforming to the latest HyperTransport specification and delivering silicon and systems to market quickly and successfully. The HyperTransport compatibility platform is equipped with a Virtex- II™ FPGA from Xilinx and provides two 16-bit HyperTransport interfaces to allow testing of host, tunnel, switch or cave based HyperTransport configurations. The platform also provides a 16-bit SPI-4.2 and Gigabit Ethernet interface, extending its use to validate cores that bridge HyperTransport, SPI-4.2 and Gigabit Ethernet technologies. The management portion includes a CPU subsystem using a Motorola MPC8245 PowerQUICC II processor supported by 8MB Flash Memory, 128 MB SDRAM, and a serial port. The HyperTransport Interfaces use male and female connectors from Samtec (QSE and QTE connectors), that are compliant with the HyperTransport Consortium connector definition for Device-Under-Test, allowing any HyperTransport device or subsystem to be linked to the HT8000. Theis HT8000 platform provides a test fixture socket compatible with the FuturePlus Systems HyperTransport Analysis probe for the Agilent Logic Analyzer. GDA also provides a full Embedded Linux Operating System Port kit on this platform. “The HyperTransport compatibility platform will help the rapid deployment of HyperTransport technology by Solution Providers and OEMs in the market place. We are delighted to be the first companies to offer this unique platform in the market and to win the endorsement of the HyperTransport consortium,” said Gopa Periyadan, vice president and General Manager of System and Software Design Business Unit at GDA. “Xilinx is using the HT8000 platform for hardware validation and interoperability testing of our own HyperTransport cores. The platform is an ideal tool to demonstrate interoperability with industry leaders, provides us with a great tool to shorten our validation cycles thereby reducing customer time to market,” said Ron DiGiuseppe, senior marketing manager of System Interfaces in the IP Solutions Division at Xilinx. GDA has worked closely with Xilinx and the HyperTransport Cconsortium during the definition and design stages of The HT8000. GDA will be responsible for production and support of the HT8000. Both GDA and Xilinx are members of the HyperTransport Consortium. GDA is a leading worldwide provider of comprehensive set of HyperTransport IP cores. GDA HyperTransport IP offerings include Host, Bridge, Tunnel and Cave. These re-useable IP blocks enable networking, cCommunication, embedded applications, and PC companies to easily integrate HyperTransport I/O technology in their high-performance IC designs. As part of the IP licensing package, GDA provides extensive set of documentations and support to minimize a customer’s time to market, risk, and development costs. Additional information about GDA’s HyperTransport IP cores and intellectual property licensing program is available at http://hypertransport.gdatech.com. Pricing and Availability The HT8000 is now available now from GDA Technologies. The platform supports Xilinx Virtex- II devices ranging from 34 million system -gates to 68 million system -gates. FPGAs The HT8000 is available with Embedded Linux. Pricing details are available through GDA sales at info@gdatech.com. About GDA Technologies, Inc. GDA Technologies, Inc. is a leading design services company specializing in embedded, networking and consumer electronic designs. GDA focused on designing Systems, Boards, SOCs, ASICs, FPGAs and IPs from concept to product. GDA has successfully developed products in areas of Networking, Digital Video, Internet Appliances and Hand Held Solutions. GDA is headquartered in San Jose, CA and has satellite design centers in Sacramento, Boston, Chennai and Bangalore. GDA’s web site is at www.gdatech.com. About Xilinx, Inc. Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) is the worldwide leader of programmable logic solutions. Additional information about Xilinx is available at www.xilinx.com. Altera Customers Now Have Access to GDA Technologies' Extensive Expertise in Embedded, Networking, and Consumer Electronics Applications San Jose, Calif., May 5, 2003 — Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR) today announced that GDA Technologies has joined the Altera Consultants Alliance Program (ACAP®). As the newest ACAP member, San Jose-based GDA Technologies will provide Altera customers with extensive design expertise in developing complete system-on-a-programmable-chip (SOPC) solutions, extending Altera's reach into embedded, networking, high-end consumer electronics, digital signal processing (DSP), and wireless local area network (LAN) markets. GDA Technologies' intellectual property (IP) portfolio is optimized for Altera's latest FPGAs, which include Stratix™, Cyclone™, and Stratix GX devices. "By partnering with GDA Technologies, our customers can now enjoy reduced design cycles and lower costs and risks," said Andrew Byers, Bay Area sales director at Altera. "Additionally, GDA Technologies' extensive IP portfolio, which includes HyperTransport™, SPI-4.2, and 10-Gigabit Ethernet MAC cores, are also available to help designers customize their SOPC designs." "GDA Technologies' extensive design experience coupled with Altera's leading-edge programmable logic technology provides customers with a complete solution that will achieve their time-to-market goals," said Wes Schropp, director of sales for Northern California at GDA Technologies. About ACAP The Altera Consultants Alliance Program provides Altera customers with easy access to a worldwide network of certified design consultants with expertise in Altera's SOPC solutions. Additionally, ACAP consultants specialize in niche areas, which makes them profoundly effective at solving specific problems and facilitating time-to-market needs. Altera provides its ACAP members with on-going training to keep them up-to-date with Altera's leading-edge SOPC solutions. About GDA Technologies, Inc. GDA Technologies, Inc. is a leading design services company specializing in embedded, networking and consumer electronic designs. GDA focused on designing Systems, Boards, SOCs, ASICs, FPGAs and IPs from concept to product. GDA has successfully developed products in areas of Networking, Digital Video, Internet Appliances and Hand Held Solutions. GDA is headquartered in San Jose, CA and has satellite design centers in Sacramento, Boston, Chennai and Bangalore. GDA’s web site is at www.gdatech.com. About Altera Celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR) is the world's pioneer in system-on-a-programmable-chip (SOPC) solutions. Combining programmable logic technology with software tools, intellectual property, and technical services, Altera provides high-value programmable solutions to approximately 14,000 customers worldwide. More information is available at www.altera.com. Altera, The Programmable Solutions Company, the stylized Altera logo, specific device designations and all other words that are identified as trademarks and/or service marks are, unless noted otherwise, the trademarks and service marks of Altera Corporation in the U.S. and other countries. HyperTransport is a trademark of the HyperTransport Consortium. All other product or service names are the property of their respective holders. San Jose, Calif. – May 6, 2003 – GDA Technologies, Inc, a fast growing supplier of Intellectual Property and Design Services, today announced that Cray, Inc. (NASDAQ: CRAY) has licensed GDA’s HyperTransport IP cores for the development of its Sandia National Laboratories supercomputer code named “Red Storm”. The licensed IP cores are HyperCave and HyperCaveLite for ASIC and FPGA integration, respectively. GDA’s HyperTransport IP cores provide a narrow, low power, and extremely fast point-to-point link between the devices in the system. They support 16-bit data width with clock speeds of up to 800MHz, and Double Data Rate (DDR) memory signaling, providing aggregate throughput of 51.2Gigabits/s per link. “GDA HyperTransport IP offerings are a good match for the demanding requirements of our Red Storm supercomputer development," said Brian Koblenz, Cray's Vice President, Special Projects. "We are very impressed with the quality, exceptional performance and feature sets of GDA's IP cores.” Cray has been awarded a $90 million contract by Sandia National Laboratories to develop the Red Storm supercomputer. Red Storm will be based on a Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) architecture with peak performance of 40 trillion calculations per second (40 teraOPS) using two calculations/clock cycle, and scalability to hundreds of teraOPS. The supercomputer will be seven times faster than Sandia Lab’s current supercomputer and is scheduled to be operational in 2004. “Cray’s licensing of our HyperTransport IP cores is further testament to the tremendous and ongoing acceptance of GDA’s IP offerings to the industry”, said Prakash Bare, Vice President of IP Business at GDA. “Companies that require high performance IPs and demand the best in quality and total customer satisfaction can expect to find them in GDA.” Red Storm is expected to be powered by 10,000 AMD Opteron™ processors. The advanced features of the AMD Opteron processor make it ideal for this type of deployment: 32-bit and 64-bit capability, integrated DDR memory controller and HyperTransport technology links. These features can increase overall system performance by removing I/O bottlenecks, which in turn improves bandwidth and reduces latency. The upcoming AMD Opteron processor is designed to provide simultaneous 32- and 64-bit high-performance computing, giving customers the flexibility and performance required to run demanding enterprise applications. “To have renowned organizations such as Cray and Sandia place their trust in us is a tremendous endorsement of the upcoming AMD Opteron processor and demonstrates AMD’s strength in the high performance computing market,” said Marty Seyer, vice president of Server Business Segment for AMD’s Computation Products Group. “The architectural advantages of the AMD Opteron processor have allowed us to meet the stringent processor design requirements for a world-class supercomputer.” About GDA Technologies, Inc. GDA Technologies, Inc. is a leading design services company specializing in embedded, networking and consumer electronic designs. GDA focused on designing Systems, Boards, SOCs, ASICs, FPGAs and IPs from concept to product. GDA has successfully developed products in areas of Networking, Digital Video, Internet Appliances and Hand Held Solutions. GDA is headquartered in San Jose, CA and has satellite design centers in Sacramento, Boston, Chennai and Bangalore. GDA’s web site is at www.gdatech.com. About Cray Inc. Cray is the premier provider of supercomputing solutions for customers' most challenging scientific and engineering problems. Visit www.cray.com for more information about the company. AMD, the AMD Arrow logo, AMD Opteron, and combinations thereof are trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. HyperTransport is a licensed trademark of the HyperTransport Technology Consortium. Other product and company names may be trademarks of their respective companies. San Jose, Calif. – May 6, 2003 – GDA Technologies, Inc, a fast growing supplier of Intellectual Property and Design Services, today announced that it has become a member of the IBM Blue Logic IP Collaboration Program. The Blue Logic IP Collaboration Program was established last year by IBM to enable its customer utilization of IP cores that have been proven in IBM Microelectronics' leading ASIC manufacturing technologies. Six GDA IP cores are available through IBM Blue Logic IP Collaboration Program including HyperTransport Cave, Tunnel, Host and Bridge, 10 Gigabit Ethernet MAC, and SPI4.2 link controller. Information on these IP cores is available on IBM and GDA web sites. "Solutions that are part of our IP collaboration program can address our customers' critical need for high quality, high performance IP," said Tom Reeves, Vice President of ASIC Product Group at IBM Microelectronics. "As SOCs increase in complexity, the requirement for IP intensifies, and thus extensive experience in networking IP, from companies like GDA, can add value to our Blue Logic Program and allow our customers to devote their time to creating competitive products on time and on budget." "We are very pleased to be a member of the IBM Blue Logic IP Collaboration Program,” said Prakash Bare, Vice President of IP Business at GDA. “IBM is one of the world’s top semiconductor manufacturers, and we take pride in availability of our HyperTransport, 10 GEthernet MAC and SPI4.2 IP cores through the IP Collaboration Program. Our broad range of IP solutions and services will be available to IBM’s customers to dramatically reduce RTL development time for complex SOC solutions. We look forward to working closely with IBM." About GDA Technologies, Inc. GDA Technologies, Inc. is a leading design services company specializing in embedded, networking and consumer electronic designs. GDA focused on designing Systems, Boards, SOCs, ASICs, FPGAs and IPs from concept to product. GDA has successfully developed products in areas of Networking, Digital Video, Internet Appliances and Hand Held Solutions. GDA is headquartered in San Jose, CA and has satellite design centers in Sacramento, Boston, Chennai and Bangalore. GDA’s web site is at www.gdatech.com. About IBM IBM is the world's largest information technology company, with 80 years of leadership in helping businesses innovate. Drawing on resources from across IBM and key Business Partners, IBM offers a wide range of services, solutions and technologies that enable customers, large and small, to take full advantage of the new era of e-business. IBM's Shared University Research (SUR) program provides computing equipment and research collaborations to institutions around the world for advanced research projects in areas of mutual interest and benefit, including: Grid Computing, Autonomic Computing, Life Sciences and Deep Computing. The SUR awards also connect top academic researchers with IBM Research personnel, and representatives from product-development and solution-provider communities. IBM awards about 50 SUR grants per year worldwide. For more information about IBM, visit www.ibm.com. About HyperTransport™ Technology HyperTransport universal chip-to-chip interconnect technology replaces and improves upon existing multilevel buses used in systems such as personal computers, servers and embedded systems while maintaining software compatibility with PCI I/O technologies. HyperTransport technology delivers a maximum 12.8 GB/second aggregate bandwidth using easy to manufacture dual, unidirectional point-to-point links. Enhanced 1.2V low-power LVDS signaling and dual-data rate data transfers deliver increased data throughput while minimizing signal crosstalk and EMI. HyperTransport interconnect technology employs a packetized data protocol to eliminate many sideband signals (control and command signals) and supports asymmetric, variable width data paths. HyperTransport is a licensed trademark of the HyperTransport Technology Consortium. The HyperTransport Tunnel, Cave, Host and Bridge Link Controllers Accelerate the Development of ICs and FPGA-based Systems San Jose, Calif. – May 6, 2003 – GDA Tec | |||||||||||||
